Speed up your feed generation in Rails

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The easiest thing to do is sudo gem install fast_xs This makes my feed generation 10x faster. What it does is natively implement String::to_xs, the good news is that rails 2.0.2 and later, is aware of this patch and all you need to do is install the gem and restart your rails app. Here is a screenshot of the state of affairs after the patch.